Members mikelyons Posted September 27, 2017 Members Share Posted September 27, 2017 I've been trying to compile a list of all of the books written about radio & television soap operas, but I figured the community as a whole could fill-in gaps where they exist. I'm including scrapbooks, autobiographies, show specific books, and general histories/studies on the genre. For the sake of ease, I've listed autobiographies & show specific books under the shows to which they mainly pertain (i.e. All Her Children is listed under All My Children). General: No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject by Martha Nochimson Worlds Without End: The Art and History of the Soap Opera by Ron Simon The Soaps: Daytime Serials of Radio and TV by Madeline Edmonson and David Rounds The Great Radio Soap Operas by Jim Cox Frank and Anne Hummert’s Radio Factory by Jim Cox Soap Opera History by Mary Ann Copeland The Daytime Serials of Television 1946-1960T by Jim Cox The Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Gerard J. Waggett By soap: ALL MY CHILDREN All Her Children by Dan Wakefield All My Children: Complete Family Scrapbook by Gary Warner My Life to Live by Agnes Nixon The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler by Ruth Warrick All My Life by Susan Lucci AS THE WORLD TURNS As the World Turns: The Complete Family Scrapbook (Special 40th Anniversary Edition) by Julie Poll ANOTHER WORLD Eight Years in Another World by Harding Lemay Another World 35th Anniversary: The 35th Anniversary Celebration by Julie Poll THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell by Michael Maloney The Bold and the Beautiful: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration by Robert Waldron DAYS OF OUR LIVES Days of Our Lives by Margaret Russell Days of Our Lives: 50 Years by Greg Meng Days of Our Lives: The Complete Family Album: A 30th Anniversary Celebration by Lorraine Zenka GENERAL HOSPITAL General Hospital: The Complete Scrapbook by Gary Warner GUIDING LIGHT Guiding Light: The Complete Family Album by Julie Poll Guiding Light: A 50th Anniversary Celebration by Christopher Schemering ONE LIFE TO LIVE My Life to Live by Agnes Nixon One Life to Live: Thirty Years of Memories by Gary Warner Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live by Jeff Giles SEARCH FOR TOMORROW Both of Me by Mary Stuart THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell by Michael Maloney I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama by Eric Braeden Not Young, Still Restless by Jeanne Cooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted September 27, 2017 Members Share Posted September 27, 2017 "The women who raised me" that's Victoria Rowells bio right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Yes. Her "novels" are Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva and The Young and the Ruthless: Back in the Bubbles. Eileen Davidson also wrote three mystery novels: Death in Daytime, Dial Emmy for Murder, Diva Las Vegas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Titus Andronicus Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Days of Our Lives - A Tour Through Salem (Zenka) - Corday's book General - The Bathroom Soap Opera Book (found it in a thrift store, it's all kinds of little trivia quizzes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Thanks! forgot about Eileens novels... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 General: Writing for Soaps by Jean Rouverol (former writer of GL, SFT, and ATWT) Writing for Soaps by Chris Curry (former writer of UK soaps, Albion Market & Brookside) Writing Soap by Chris Thompson (writer from Emmerdale) The Archers: The Archers Archives by Chris Arnot & Simon Frith Coronation Street: Coronation Street: Around the Houses by Daran Little (writer of Corrie, AMC, HollyOaks EastEnders) Coronation St.: The War Years: The Complete, Enthralling Saga of Coronation Street During World War II by Daran Little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikelyons Posted September 28, 2017 Author Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Writing for Soaps by Chris Curry is a great book. I had it for years, but I lost it during one of my many moves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slick jones Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 I have a list of books I used to find cast information a long time ago. I'm looking for it among my papers. One last box to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikelyons Posted September 28, 2017 Author Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 General: The Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Gerard J. Waggett I was obsessed with this book when it came out & fueled my passion to see one episode of Where the Heart Is. I read it so often, I broke the binding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Comic Fiction: Soapsuds by Finola Hughes and Digby Diehl Mystery: Bloody Soaps by Jacqueline Babbin All My Suspects by Louise Shaffer The Soap Opera Slaughters* by Marvin Kaye *The only one of the four I've read (years ago, so my memories are rusty). Kaye apparently based his fictional soap, "Riverdale," on Ryan's Hope. The most sympathetic suspect plays a Delia type (there's even mention of her being skilled with stocks). The show's patriarch is a hybrid of Bernie Barrow and Macdonald Carey (Kaye was a Days fan). The show's matriarch is very clearly Helen Gallagher, with maybe more than a little Mary Stuart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 The Soap Opera Book by Manuela Soares. From the mid 70s, in depth look at the genre and the soaps of that time. ATWT As My World Still Turns by Eileen Fulton DOOL etc Please Spell My Name Right by Jed Allan Like Sands Through the Hourglass by Bill and Susan Hayes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 It is a good book. I still go back to it all the time when I do some of my own personal writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slick jones Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 Sorry if any are repeats... Soap Opera Digest Scrapbook...John Kelly Genovese 1983 TV Soap Opera Almanac Ron Lackman 1976 Daytime TV's Star Directory Paul Denis Sterling Press 1976 Daytime TV Jason Bonderoff 1976 Soap Opera History Mary Ann Copeland Soap Opera History 1991 The Soap Opera Muriel Cantor and Suzanne Pringee 1983 From Mary Noble to Mary Hartman: The Complete Soap Opera Book Madeline Edmondson and David Rounds 1976 Taking Soaps Seriously: The World of Guiding Light Michael James Intintoli 1984 Super Soaps Jane Kutler and Patricia Kearney 1977 From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman Robert LaGuardia 1977 The Official Soap Opera Annual...Bryna Laub 1977 The Loves of Their Lives Lynne Rogers 1979 The Year in Soaps Rod Townley 1984 Soap Opera Book: Who's Who in Daytime Drama Nancy E. Rout, Barney M. Rout and Ellen Buckley The Ultimate Soap Opera Guide Seli Groves Tune in Yesterday John Dunning 1976 Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio John Dunning 1998 Inside the Soaps Paul Denis 1985 Soaps: A Pictorial History of America's Daytime Dramas Seli Groves 1984 The Soap Opera Book Manuela Soares 1979 Soap World Robert LaGuardia Soap Stars Dianna Whitley and Ray Manzella 1985 Illustrated Soap Opera Companion Richard Meyers 1977 Dallas The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime Time Soap Barbara A. Curran 2004 Soap Opera Book of Lists Gerard J Waggett 1996 The Ultimate Days of Our Lives Trivia Book GW 1999 The Official All My Children Trivia Book GW 1998 The Ultimate Another World Trivia Book GW 1999 The Ultimate Young and the Restless Trivia Book GW 2000 The Soap Opera Puzzle Book GW 1997 Guiding Light A 50th Anniversary Special Christopher Schemering 1986 Dallas: The Complete Ewing Family Saga, Including Southfork Ranch, Ewing Oil, and the Barnes-Ewing Feud 1860-1985 Laura Van Wormer 1985 Days of Our Lives: A Complete History of the Long-Running Soap Opers Maureen Russell 1995 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 What's scary is how many I own. "Daytime Divas: The Dish on Dozens of Daytime TV's Great Ladies" (published in 2000 apparently, but it looks very mid-90's) "Soap Opera: A Novel" by Eileen Fulton. A fictional novel by ATWT's Lisa. Guiding Light: "I'm Just Sayin'!: Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life as a Daytime Diva" by Kim Zimmer That's a good one. I remember finding it on the shelves in 2000 and feeling like I had found the soap opera holy grail. A great read, published in 1997, with Port Charles as the genre's fresh newbie. As a numbers nerd, I loved the Nielsen ratings listings by year as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted September 28, 2017 Members Share Posted September 28, 2017 What about all the hundreds of fictionalized soap and serial novels of all the past and present soaps? Would those qualify too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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